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Bracket Sandbox

Adjust the marginal rates and watch each household's tax and the direction of total revenue. Illustrative model — every bracket and assumption is on the table.

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Move a rate below to see the direction of total revenue and how each household responds. This is a non-partisan sandbox — it shows raises and cuts alike.

Your work is saved on this device automatically. The share link encodes only the bracket rates — never any personal data.

Marginal rates

  • $0–$11,59910%
  • $11,600–$47,14912%
  • $47,150–$100,52422%
  • $100,525–$191,94924%
  • $191,950–$243,72432%
  • $243,725–$609,34935%
  • $609,350+37%

Illustrative marginal-bracket model — no credits, deductions, or phaseouts. Drag any rate; the table and revenue direction update live.

Household impact

Tax now vs proposed for each sample household, with the change and effective rate.
HouseholdIncomeNowProposedChangeEff. rate
Service worker$35,000$3,968$3,968$011.3%
Teacher$65,000$9,353$9,353$014.4%
Engineer$140,000$26,643$26,643$019.0%
Surgeon$400,000$110,375$110,375$027.6%
Executive$1,200,000$402,188$402,188$033.5%

Rounding rule: tax is rounded to the nearest whole dollar. Effective rate = total tax ÷ income on the proposed schedule.

Add any income to see it in the table above. Kept on this device only — it never affects the weighted revenue rollup and is never uploaded.

Policy fingerprint

policy.fingerprint
$ fingerprint --canonical proposed-schedule
  $0           10%
  $11,600      12%
  $47,150      22%
  $100,525     24%
  $191,950     32%
  $243,725     35%
  $609,350     37%
fnv1a: af-5f22059f0bdf6503
revenue: flat  (Δ $0 weighted)
status: matches current law

A reproducible fingerprint of the exact schedule above (FNV-1a over the canonical form). It is a change-detection fingerprint, not a cryptographic signature — copy it to share or re-check a proposal.

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